"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:> Linus, this makes very little sense right now: there is an _urgent_> need for a journaled filesystem for Linux, and there is an urgent need> for a solution which is of production quality. Implementing a new> filesystem from scratch is hardly the way to achieve that. The> recovery time of ext2 on large filesystems is a real showstopper to> many potential applications.

As someone trying to actually deploy 80+ GBRAIDed database servers right now on Linux, I cancertainly second Stephen's opinion. About the*only* problem with ext2 right now is thelong fsck times. I've attached some measurementsto show you how serious the problem is.